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Autograph Prayer Signed, 'For Stephen Snell from Rumer Godden'.

Author: 
Rumer Godden, English novelist (1907-98)
Publication details: 
Without date or place [but card dated 1992].
£36.00

In very good condition, on a greetings card containing a reproduction of an illustration of a black cat by Barry Moser, from Godden's translation of Carmen Bernos de Gasztold's 'Prayers from the Ark'. The prayer, in Godden's hand (and probably one of her translations from the book) reads 'Lord, I am the Cat. It is not exactly that I hahve something to ask of you! No - I ask nothing of anyone - but, if you have by some chance, in some celestial barn. a little white mouse, or a saucer of milk. I know someone who would relish them.

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